The aggressive young Canadian went out for his qualifying run but unfortunately
was held up because of an incident involving several cars. The altercation
occurred right in front of him forcing him to get on the brakes because of all the
debris on the track.

"On the first lap, four or five cars went off in the first turn and a huge amount of
dirt was left on the track," said Michael Valiante. "The leaders had already been
through turn one before the incident occurred and I was the first car to arrive at
the corner and had to get off the gas. It's unfortunate that I couldn't get in a
clean lap because the car was really quick in the morning session. The car is
good; I'm not at all concerned about the race."

The Finlay Motorsports team will sit tomorrow morning's practice session out
because of a scheduled engine change. The No.19 will return to action for the
final 45 minute session before the engines come to life for the start of the Rolex
24 Hours at Daytona on Saturday, January 27 at 1:30 p.m.